pcre -- multiple vulnerabilities

Details

VuXML ID

4a88e3ed-00d3-11e5-a072-d050996490d0

Discovery

2015-04-28

Entry

2015-05-22

Modified

2015-06-07

PCRE development team reports:

A pattern such as "((?2){0,1999}())?", which has a group
containing a forward reference repeated a large (but limited)
number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero
minimum quantifier, caused incorrect code to be compiled,
leading to the error "internal error: previously-checked
referenced subpattern not found" when an incorrect memory
address was read. This bug was reported as "heap overflow",
discovered by Kai Lu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs and given
the CVE number CVE-2015-2325.

A pattern such as "((?+1)(\1))/" containing a forward
reference subroutine call within a group that also contained
a recursive back reference caused incorrect code to be
compiled. This bug was reported as "heap overflow",
discovered by Kai Lu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs,
and given the CVE number CVE-2015-2326.